Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-29

The Senate, on the 21st confirmed the
nomination of Alexander R Webb, of st.
Louis, as United States Consul at Manila,
Philippine islands.
A TERRIBLE explosion of gas occurred
in the Nottingham mine at Plymouth, Pa,
on the evening of the 21st. A party of
six miners entered a breast where the
ventilation was defective. A naked lamp
caused the gas to explode and the six men
were badly burned.
THE gasometer at the gas works at
Pottsville, Pa, collapsed ON the night OF
the 21st, leaving the houses of the city In
darkness. The streets are lighted by
electricity. 1t will take month or two
to repair the damage. The supply of
lamps and candles is far short of the de-
mand.
THE Butte County (CaL) Citrus fair
opened at Oroville on the evening of the
Goth. The display of citrus fruits from
localities in the northern part of the State
are very elaborate, about 10000 oranges
and lemons being on exhibition. The fair
is being held in large canvas pavilion,
within which are a number of orange
trees in full bearing.
MRS. JENNIE WALKER, of Ontario, N. Y,
has commenced action against Daniel Ell
man, one of the most prom inent men in
that place, for damages to the amount of
g, 900 for kissing her on the left cheek,
last Septem Der.
DIR. F. V. HAYDEN, a distinguished ge-
ologist, died at Philadelphia on the 22d.
THREE firemen were seriously injured on
the Odd by falling walls in fire at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
DIR. TELEScHow, German court dentist,
reports the Crown Prince improved in ap-
pearance.
AN explosion of naphtha in Jersey City,
N. j., ON the 22d, fatally injured an office
boy and seriously hurt two others.
THE President will receive on New
Years day, according to the usual pro-
gramme. He will be assisted by Mrs.
Cleveland and the ladies of the Cabinet.
THREE steel steamers, of 5000 tons each,
are to be built at the Fairfield yard, on
the Clyde, to run in the Canadian Pacific
railways Japan and British Columbia
service.
THE Russian Government has prohib
tied the expectation to Prussia of stone
used for building forts.
TIMOTHY AND PETER BARRET are on
trial in Minneapolis, Mimi, for the muir.
der of Thomas Tollafson on July 26.
Tollafson was a car-driver, and was
brutally murdered at midnight in a lonely
part of his route for the contents of his
cash-box.
HERR WINES, the Austrian tenor, who
is under an engagement to sing in St.
Peters burg, has received from Prince
Doigouroki note informing him that it
is inadvisable at present for him to APP
pear in Russia.
SENATOR DoLPH has reported from the
Senate committee on foreign relations,
and the Senate has adopted in secret ses-
Gil Init ho
tary of State for the correspondence and
records of the State Department relating
to the German occupation of the Samoan
islands and Apia.
WALLACE Ross and Geo. Bubear have
signed articles to row for the champion
ship of England and $1,000 side. The
race will be contested ON February Is over
the Thames course.
JAMES A. TYING, the well-known Har.
ward College pitcher, has been signed and
will play with the Philadelphia Base Ball
Club next season. Tying is fine all-round
player, and will assume the duties of the
newly created office of director of ath-
letic sports of the Philadelphia club
THE body of John Howson, the actor,
who died recently, was Moderated at
Mount Olive crematory at Fresh Pond,
N. Y, on the ODD. The body was placed
in the retort at three o'clock, in the pres.
ence of the two brothers of the deceased.
There were no ceremonies.
JOHN GoFF, who claims to belong in West
Hartford, VT, reported to the police at
Boston, on the ODD, that he had been rob
bed of pocket-book containing So, 100.
He had sid farm at Hodgkins, O., and
started for his old home in Vermont, STOP
ping on the way to s'see the sights" of
Boston.
ED JOHNSON, colored, living two or three
miles west of Cincinnati, placed some
dynamite cartridges in the oven of his
stove to thaw on the 22d. Soon after
terrific explosion took place, nearly de-
stroying his house, killing his eighteen
year old daughter and infant one year
old, and seriously injuring johnson and
his wife.
A WARRANT has been granted in the
Bow Street police court, London, for the
arrest of General Millen, the head of the
GAMMA Gael Society, and Melville. for
merly agent of the society in London,
who are charged with being connected
with the dynamite conspiracy in which
Callan and Harkins are alleged to have
been engaged.